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Hey y'all--

I hope you'll forgive an outsider intruding on your local newsgroup, but 
I just wanted to share with the blues music lovers in  this group that my 
favorite 'new' blues performer in New Orleans is coming to Dallas on 
April 12th.

Mem Shannon is the kind of blues artist that gets us aficionados excited 
about the music all over again:  he plays with great respect for the 
traditions of the music, but brings a very personal touch to 
it--distinctive and contemporary.  After working for years as a taxi 
driver here in New Orleans, he recorded his first CD last year; aptly 
titled 'Cab Driver's Blues', it shows his sense of humor to equally great 
advantage as his talent.  The song cuts are interspersed with snatches of 
conversations that he recorded in his cab, and the revealed talk is as 
bizarre and funny as
modern life in New Orleans--or anywhere else, I suppose.  It also tells a 
lot about how we behave when we're letting our hair down, a classic blues 
theme in itself, and something that visitors to New Orleans are very 
prone to do.

If you love the blues, I urge you to check Mem out at Blue Cat Blues on  
April 12th. And if you do, please write me and let
me know what you thought.  You can't have too many blues-loving e-pals.

Best regards,

Maggie Mortensen
New Orleans USA

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'I'm not sure, but I think that ALL
music started in New Orleans.'
--Ernie K-Doe
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